A vulnerability has been discovered in Android operating systems v 5.0 through v 5.1.1 “LMY48M”, the security issue allows an attacker to bypass the lock screen and gain full access to a locked device. Discovered by researchers at the University of Texas the issue got reported, and thankfully the Android security team released an update a few months ago in June which fixes the problem.

Android devices on older builds ( v 5.0 through v 5.1.1) of the operating-system are still vulnerable to the attack as shown in the "step by step" demonstration video as shared below. The attack involves entering a large string of characters into the password field which is used to crash the lock-screen in order to gain unrestricted access to the device bypassing the password security.

Samsung has now officially announced their new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. The successor to Galaxy S5, will be available across the world starting on April 10th. Just like every new Samsung Galaxy device these two new flagships of the company comes power-packed with latest technology, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge comes featuring an octacore Samsung Exynos 64-bit CPU with four Cortex-A57 cores ticking at 2.1GHz and four Cortex-A53 clocked at 1.5GHz, Mali-T760 GPU, 5.1-inch Quad-HD (2,560 x 1,440 pixels) Super AMOLED display with 577 ppi density, 3GB of DDR4 RAM, 32/64/128GB internal storage with new UFS 2.0 which is 2.7x faster than the eMMC 5.0, a much faster 16-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization capable of 4K video recording, wide-angled 5-megapixel front-camera, a new Touch fingerprint sensor built into the home button, infrared heart-rate monitor which doubles as an camera sensor for accurate white-balance, integrated support for both Qi and PMA wireless charging, faster USB charging, Corning Gorilla Glass 4, Samsung Pay which relies on NFC and Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) for mobile payments, LTE Cat.6, Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, GPS with GLONASS and Beidou, IR blaster and FM radio. The Galaxy S6 is powered by a 2,550 mAh battery, while the Galaxy S6 egde has a battery capacity of 2,600 mAh. On the software front the phones are powered by Google Android 5.0 Lollipop with the latest TouchWiz UI and Material design on top of it.

Google has officially unveiled the Android 5.0 Lollipop with a new range of Nexus family devices. The newly announced devices are a 6-inch smartphone named Nexus 6, a media streamer called the Nexus Player, and a 8.9-inch tablet built by HTC Nexus 9 - all powered by the next Google Android OS, the Android 5.0 Lollipop.

With speculations of Samsung revealing the successor to the best selling smartphone of 2012 - the "Samsung Galaxy S3" during upcoming CES 2013, here is what we know till now about illusive Samsung Galaxy S4 from rumors, supposedly leaked image and an interesting concept video.

Google unveiled the latest version 4.1 of Android mobile operating-system "JellyBean" with announcement of Nexus 7, and with it comes the new "Google Speech Recognition" technology.

Apple's voice recognition assistant "Siri" is a hit and Google can't afford to loose behind, there were rumors of development of similar technology codenamed "Google Majel" and the results are out now with introduction of new "Google Speech Recognition" with Android 4.1 JellyBean. Here is a video showdown how Apple Siri and Google Voice Recognition competes each other.

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